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Poor Mac os x performance
We have ridiculously slow read/write speeds from the only Mac on our network. Every windows machine runs fine. I've done a bunch of research indicating that I need to correct my tcp.delayed_ack se...
To create the sysctl.conf file, you can either use VI or another editor. nano is something that people recommend if you are not familiar with *nix. I use VI but the choice is yours.
Then just paste in the lines mentioned in the post above.
Save and exit out of the editor. You will most likely need a reboot for this to take effect.
You can then confirm the change:
I got it to work, but wonder if the file should go under /private/etc/ instead?
sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
Then just paste in the lines mentioned in the post above.
# Disable delayed ACK over TCP to improve ReadyNAS performance
net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
Save and exit out of the editor. You will most likely need a reboot for this to take effect.
You can then confirm the change:
sysctl net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack
I got it to work, but wonder if the file should go under /private/etc/ instead?
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